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Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton pick out their cultural highlights of the last 12 months across music, theatre, film, and more.

One hundred and forty years ago, Auguste Renoir spent five weeks in Guernsey. He made at least 15 paintings and drawings on, and of, the island. Now, several of these have returned, along with others of the period, to be shown amid the little-changed landscape they depict with some interesting results

Curators of an exhibition at the island’s Candie Museum believe the subject has been misattributed and may actually be the Bay of St Peter Port

I’ve always felt that the sea was made for impressionists, and impressionists for the sea. Light brushes the waves with skittering strokes, the colours forever

Exhibition honours French impressionist whose landscapes have helped island create jobs and forge global ties

Eleven impressionist landscapes inspired by island’s scenery, light and locals go on display from 30 September

Not only did the scenes inspire him but, ultimately, his time on Guernsey created fundamental shifts in his work.

The show will begin at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny before travelling to Guernsey's Candie Museum